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Environmental Expressive Therapies contributes to the emerging
phenomenon of eco-arts therapy by highlighting the work that
international expressive arts therapists have accomplished to
establish a framework for incorporating nature as a partner in
creative/expressive arts therapy practices. Each of the
contributors explores a particular specialization and outlines the
implementation of multi-professional and multi-modal "earth-based"
creative/expressive interventions that practitioners can use in
their daily work with patients with various clinical needs.
Different forms of creative/expressive practices-such as creative
writing, play therapy techniques, visual arts, expressive music,
dramatic performances, and their combinations with wilderness and
animal-assisted therapy-are included in order to maximize the
spectrum of treatment options. Environmental Expressive Therapies
represents a variety of practical approaches and tools for
therapists to use to achieve multiple treatment goals and promote
sustainable lifestyles for individuals, families, and communities.
Environmental Expressive Therapies contributes to the emerging
phenomenon of eco-arts therapy by highlighting the work that
international expressive arts therapists have accomplished to
establish a framework for incorporating nature as a partner in
creative/expressive arts therapy practices. Each of the
contributors explores a particular specialization and outlines the
implementation of multi-professional and multi-modal "earth-based"
creative/expressive interventions that practitioners can use in
their daily work with patients with various clinical needs.
Different forms of creative/expressive practices-such as creative
writing, play therapy techniques, visual arts, expressive music,
dramatic performances, and their combinations with wilderness and
animal-assisted therapy-are included in order to maximize the
spectrum of treatment options. Environmental Expressive Therapies
represents a variety of practical approaches and tools for
therapists to use to achieve multiple treatment goals and promote
sustainable lifestyles for individuals, families, and communities.
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Folktales from Syria (Paperback)
Samir Tahhan; Translated by Andrea Rugh; Introduction by Andrea Rugh; Illustrated by Douglas Rugh
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R487
Discovery Miles 4 870
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Ships in 12 - 17 working days
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Syrian poet Samir Tahhan collected folktales from old men sitting
outside their houses in Aleppo, drinking tea. Afraid these stories
would disappear with the passing of this generation, Tahhan also
went to halls and events to hear professional storytellers and
record their performances. Anthropologist Andrea Rugh helped
translate the resulting two volumes of stories from the original
Arabic and wrote the informative introduction to this one-volume
collection.
Some of the tales appeared in rhyming verse in Arabic and some
were based on events that are said to have actually taken place in
Aleppo. Rugh explains the concepts of the most popular types of
Syrian story structures: the gissa, the hikaya, and the hudutha.
With two of the poems, the Arabic and the English are shown side by
side in order to demonstrate the internal poetic structures of the
original rhymes.
With their emphasis on morality and social values, the tales
will be familiar to Western audiences. Another value for the reader
is finding the accepted social values and behaviors that Arab
adults try to inculcate in their younger generation, often through
complex characterizations. Teasing out these meanings gives the
reader an appreciation for the act of translation and hints of the
power of the Arabic language in prose and poetry.
Professional illustrator Douglas Rugh has provided the book's
black-and-white prints based on the stories and his experiences as
a child growing up in the Middle East.
The book describes the impact of cultural perceptions on rulers'
behaviors in the United Arab Emirates, once the Trucial States.
Despite differences in size, economic resources, and external
political pressures, the seven emirates' rulers utilized very
similar cultural expectations to gain the support of others.
Christians in the Middle East have come under increasing pressure
in recent years with the rise of radical Islam. In Egypt, the large
Coptic Christian community has traditionally played an important
political and historical role. This book examines Egyptian
Christians' responses to sectarian pressures in both national and
local contexts.
This book presents the first-ever close and up-to-date look at how
American diplomats working at our embassies abroad communicate with
foreign audiences to explain US foreign policy and American culture
and society. Projecting an American voice abroad has become more
difficult in the twenty-first century, as terrorists and others
hostile to America use modern communication means to criticize us,
and as new communication tools have greatly expanded the worldwide
discussion of issues important to us, so that terrorists and others
hostile to us have added negative voices to the global dialogue. It
analyzes the communication tools our public diplomacy professionals
use, and how they employ interpersonal and language skills to
engage our critics. It shows how they overcome obstacles erected by
unfriendly governments, and explains that diplomats do not simply
to reiterate set policy formulations but engage a variety of people
from different cultures in a creative ways to increase their
understanding of America.
The chapters of this book were prepared as task force reports under
the aegis of the Biofeedback Society of America (BSA). The impetus
for the present generation of task force reports can be dated back
to 1982, when John D. Rugh, as President-Elect of the Society,
announced that the updating of the task force reports would be
given high priority during his term as President. An ad hoc Task
Force Committee was appointed in 1983, and the committee set the
following objectives: (1) solicit a widely based stream of input
from all segments of the Biofeedback Society of America, (2)
establish a peer review system to assure the highest degree of
scholarship and an unbiased approach, (3) select for area authors
only individuals who have profound knowledge of the area and who
have demonstrated the ability to extend understanding by reviewing
and criticizing the literature, (4) prepare all reports according
to a standard ized format, and (5) publish all the reports
simultaneously. Input came from several sources. Many people
responded with ideas and suggestions to an announcement in the BSA
Newsletter that the task force reports were being revised. In 1984,
a symposium was conducted at the BSA annual meeting, which included
round table dis cussions and dialogues between task force report
authors and the BSA membership."
Written for practitioners and practitioners-in-training of
education development, this book reviews education issues in
developing countries and provides in-depth case studies from Egypt,
Pakistan, and Afghanistan.
The conduct of public diplomacy is carried out as much abroad,
by Foreign Service Officers (FSOs) stationed at U.S. embassies, as
it is in Washington. This book focuses on what FSOs do in actual
practice in field operations. In a series of analytical case
studies of public diplomacy operations in different regions of the
world, the authors explain how the foreign publics in different
countries view America and how FSOs deal every day with
misconceptions and distortions of America's image and policies.
Every country is unique, so public diplomacy must be tailored to
fit local conditions. The authors also discuss how their work is
being impacted today by various developments such as the rise of
terrorism, the spread of the Internet and the cell phone, or the
election of Barack Obama. This book focuses on field operations and
goes beyond broad generalizations and theory, presenting
information about actual operational challenges and the best
practices used today in working abroad.
The book describes the impact of cultural perceptions on rulers'
behaviors in the United Arab Emirates, once the Trucial States.
Despite differences in size, economic resources, and external
political pressures, the seven emirates' rulers utilized very
similar cultural expectations to gain the support of others. The
author describes what has generally been only touched upon
before--the significant but largely "invisible" roles women and
marriage play in the political process of tribal societies.
The book describes the impact of cultural perceptions on rulers'
behaviors in the United Arab Emirates, once the Trucial States.
Despite differences in size, economic resources, and external
political pressures, the seven emirates' rulers utilized very
similar cultural expectations to gain the support of others. The
author describes what has generally been only touched upon
before--the significant but largely "invisible" roles women and
marriage play in the political process of tribal societies.
The chapters of this book were prepared as task force reports under
the aegis of the Biofeedback Society of America (BSA). The impetus
for the present generation of task force reports can be dated back
to 1982, when John D. Rugh, as President-Elect of the Society,
announced that the updating of the task force reports would be
given high priority during his term as President. An ad hoc Task
Force Committee was appointed in 1983, and the committee set the
following objectives: (1) solicit a widely based stream of input
from all segments of the Biofeedback Society of America, (2)
establish a peer review system to assure the highest degree of
scholarship and an unbiased approach, (3) select for area authors
only individuals who have profound knowledge of the area and who
have demonstrated the ability to extend understanding by reviewing
and criticizing the literature, (4) prepare all reports according
to a standard ized format, and (5) publish all the reports
simultaneously. Input came from several sources. Many people
responded with ideas and suggestions to an announcement in the BSA
Newsletter that the task force reports were being revised. In 1984,
a symposium was conducted at the BSA annual meeting, which included
round table dis cussions and dialogues between task force report
authors and the BSA membership."
Between 1948 and 1957, a period that witnessed two wars between
Egypt and Israel, 60,000 members of Egypt's 75,000-strong Jewish
population left the country, compelled by growing hostility to them
because of their presumed links to Zionism, economic insecurity,
and after 1956, overt expulsion. Decades later, during the 1980s
and 1990s, the personal reminiscences of eight Egyptian Jewish
women, presently residents of New York who had left Egypt, were
meticulously collected by Nayra Atiya. While Atiya's sample of
eight narrators represents only a tiny percentage of the Jews who
left Egypt, their accounts tell us much about the middle- and
upper-class Jews who migrated to the Americas and Europe, giving us
a vivid sense of their lives in Egypt before their departure and
the dynamic role they played in Egyptian society. They were the
children or grandchildren of generations of Jews who migrated to
Egypt from around or near the Mediterranean to escape economic
hardship and persecution or, in one case, a family conflict. With
one exception, Atiya's interlocutors resided in relatively upscale
neighborhoods in Egypt near other Jewish families. They lived in
elegant apartments, with servants, fine foods, memberships in elite
clubs, and summers spent near Alexandria or in Europe. In Zikrayat,
Atiya movingly captures the essence of these women's characters and
experiences, the fabric of their day-to-day lives, and the complex,
many-layered mood of those times in Egypt. In doing so she brings
to life the ties that bind all Egyptians, offering a glimpse into a
now vanished world-and the heartbreak of exile and migration.
This is an exploration of the different ways in which the spiritual
can be used in therapy. The contributor write from a range of
perspectives including Christian, Jewish, Buddhist and shamanic and
explain how their own spiritual and creative influences interact,
finding expression in the use of art as a healing agent with
specific populations, such as bereaved children, emotionally
disturbed adolescents and the homeless. The relationships between
spirituality and visual art, art therapy and transpersonal
pyschology are also examined.
This book presents the first-ever close and up-to-date look at how
American diplomats working at our embassies abroad communicate with
foreign audiences to explain US foreign policy and American culture
and society. Projecting an American voice abroad has become more
difficult in the twenty-first century, as terrorists and others
hostile to America use modern communication means to criticize us,
and as new communication tools have greatly expanded the worldwide
discussion of issues important to us, so that terrorists and others
hostile to us have added negative voices to the global dialogue. It
analyzes the communication tools our public diplomacy professionals
use, and how they employ interpersonal and language skills to
engage our critics. It shows how they overcome obstacles erected by
unfriendly governments, and explains that diplomats do not simply
to reiterate set policy formulations but engage a variety of people
from different cultures in a creative ways to increase their
understanding of America.
Written for practitioners and practitioners-in-training of
education development, this book reviews education issues in
developing countries and provides in-depth case studies from Egypt,
Pakistan, and Afghanistan.
The conduct of public diplomacy is carried out as much abroad, by
Foreign Service Officers (FSOs) stationed at U.S. embassies, as it
is in Washington. This book focuses on what FSOs do in actual
practice in field operations.
When American anthropologist Andrea Rugh rented a room in a small
Syrian village, hoping to find the time to finish a book she was
writing, she never expected to be drawn so deeply into the lives of
her neighbours. But she developed close friendships with two
households - those of her landlady and her landlady's sister. For
eight months Rugh observed the lives of these two families and
their ten children. The result is an intimate account of family
life and child rearing in a traditional society in the midst of
modernization. "Within the Circle" is a vividly crafted portrait of
families in a changing world, chronicling the day-to-day textures
of life among family members, between parents and children, and
between families and the larger world of the village, noting the
close-knit family relationships and rigid patterns of authority and
responsibility. Rugh contrasts her experiences as an American
mother raising three independent boys with the experiences of the
village parents striving to form a clost-knit family unit. A
fascinating glimpse of village life in the contemporary Middle
East, "Within the Circle" offers a powerful basis for comparing the
significant differences in famil
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